1 Topic by arcelios

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Topic: Won't Resize My Partition

I recently have decided that I no longer want Linux to share half of my already small hard drive with Mac OS X-I want to get rid of the Linux partition, and make the Mac one full sized. So, I booted Ubuntu from a LiveCD, and loaded GParted. I deleted my Linux partition and it's swap partition. That went smoothly. But when I went to resize my mac partition, the recize dialog loads fine (it's not mounted or anything), but it won't allow me to make the partition bigger-the up arrow on the "partition size" box is grayed out, and nothing happens when I try to drag the arrow on the visual partition to make it larger. No errors-it just doesn't resize. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Arc

2 Reply by stormhead

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Re: Won't Resize My Partition

Hi!

MacOS X typically uses the HFS+ file system. GParted does understand this file system so far that it can read, shrink, move, ... a HFS+ formatted partition, but it can not create HFS+, grow a HFS+ partition (which is what you need), or check HFS+ for errors.
So I think you should have a look at MacOS X's hard drive utility - maybe it can grow your current MacOS partiton. If not, I think the only way to go is to craete a new HFS+ partition and use it asan additional "hard drive" (to speak in Windows terms).

3 Reply by class413

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Re: Won't Resize My Partition

Please, check the "features" option in the main GParted site. There is a table with the supported operations for each filesystem.
Growing hfs and hfs+ isn't supported. As stormhead wrote above, you have to look for some MacOSX tool.

(Moved to the live media section)

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***